WoRMS taxon details
Stainforthia Hofker, 1956
112117 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:112117)
accepted
Genus
Virgulina concava Höglund, 1947 accepted as Stainforthia concava (Höglund, 1947) (type by original designation)
Pseudovirgulina Grignani & Cococcetta, 1974 † · unaccepted (Subjective junior synonym Opinion...)
Subjective junior synonym Opinion of BouDagher (1987)
- Species Stainforthia brevis McCulloch, 1977
- Species Stainforthia concava (Höglund, 1947)
- Species Stainforthia concisa Crespin, 1960
- Species Stainforthia feylingi Knudsen & Seidenkrantz, 1994
- Species Stainforthia fusiformis (Williamson, 1858)
- Species Stainforthia loeblichi (Feyling-Hanssen, 1954)
- Species Stainforthia panayensis McCulloch, 1977
- Species Stainforthia regina Zhang, 1988
- Species Stainforthia skagerakensis (Höglund, 1947)
- Species Stainforthia vestfoldensis Crespin, 1960
- Species Stainforthia apertura (Uchio, 1960) accepted as Fursenkoina apertura (Uchio, 1960)
- Species Stainforthia complanata (Egger, 1893) accepted as Fursenkoina complanata (Egger, 1893)
- Species Stainforthia compressa (Bailey, 1851) accepted as Fursenkoina compressa (Bailey, 1851)
- Species Stainforthia exilis (Brady, 1884) accepted as Eubuliminella exilis (Brady, 1884)
- Species Stainforthia ishikiensis (Asano, 1949) accepted as Fursenkoina ishikiensis (Asano, 1949)
- Species Stainforthia spinosa (Heron-Allen & Earland, 1932) accepted as Fursenkoina spinosa (Heron-Allen & Earland, 1932)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Hofker, J. (1956). Tertiary foraminifera of coastal Ecuador- Part II Additional notes on the Eocene species. <em>Journal of palaeontology.</em> 30: 891-958.
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Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Stainforthia Hofker, 1956. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=112117 on 2025-04-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Hofker, J. (1956). Tertiary foraminifera of coastal Ecuador- Part II Additional notes on the Eocene species. <em>Journal of palaeontology.</em> 30: 891-958.
page(s): p. 908 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Pseudovirgulina Grignani & Cococcetta, 1974 †) Grignani, D.; Cococcetta, V. (1974). A propos des faunes oligotypiques de l'Éocène et du Paléocène de la Tunisie centro-septentrionale. <em>Annales des Mines et de la Géologie, République Tunisienne.</em> 26[1973]: 305-317.
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basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): p. 908 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Pseudovirgulina Grignani & Cococcetta, 1974 †) Grignani, D.; Cococcetta, V. (1974). A propos des faunes oligotypiques de l'Éocène et du Paléocène de la Tunisie centro-septentrionale. <em>Annales des Mines et de la Géologie, République Tunisienne.</em> 26[1973]: 305-317.
page(s): p. 309 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Gross, O. (2001). Foraminifera, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 60-75 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp., available online at https://books.google.pt/books?id=n_BqCQAAQBAJ [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Revets, S. A. (1996). The generic revision of five families of Rotaliine Foraminifera - Part 1. The Bolivinitidae Cushman, 1927. <em>Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication.</em> 1-55., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/SpecialPublications/sp34.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Revets, S. A. (1996). The generic revision of five families of Rotaliine Foraminifera - Part 1. The Bolivinitidae Cushman, 1927. <em>Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication.</em> 1-55., available online at https://cushmanfoundation.allenpress.com/Portals/_default/SpecialPublications/sp34.pdf [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Test narrow, fusiform, rounded in section, inflated and globular to ovate chambers increasing in height as added, triserially arranged in the early stage at least in the microspheric generation, later in a twisted biserial arrangement, final chambers more loosely biserial, sutures oblique, distinct, depressed; wall calcareous, hyaline, finely perforate, optically radial, surface smooth to longitudinally striate, proloculus may have one or more long apical spines; aperture a loop in the face of the final chamber, with narrow incurved lip at one margin, and the opposite margin bent inward to form a broad folded toothplate that partially closes the opening, lower part of toothplate attached to the preceding chamber wall and long free part with serrate margin. Eocene to Holocene; cosmopolitan. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
